By Abdelkader Assad
Libyans brace for a new wave of nation-wide protests on September 25 to go out in public squares and chant their demands as well as rights against the current governing bodies from east to west. Read More
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A Swiss-Libyan entrepreneur is making his second attempt to become Libya’s president. Read More
On September 21, 2017, The Libya Times published an article titled: ‘Tripoli Braces for Hurricane Igtet’. Basit Igtet [husband of Sara Bronfman) is front and center in a confrontation between the UN-backed government in Libya and Muslim terrorists. Read More
By Khaled Mahmoud and Sawsan Abu Hussein
The roadmap proposed by UN Sec-Gen Special Representative and Head of UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Ghassan Salame will not succeed in solving the Libyan political crisis, according to a prominent official of the Libyan National Congress. Read More
An International Criminal Court arrest warrant for a Libyan militia leader issued in August has raised questions about whether the accused’s highest commander – Khalifa Haftar – is also potentially guilty of war crimes. Read More
By Beth Van Schaack
Further to Just Security‘s coverage on Tuesday of the potential war crimes liability of U.S citizen/Libyan warlord General Khalifa Haftar, this article discusses the distinction under international criminal law between Read More
It is not for a lack of trying, but the United Nations has struggled to resolve the Libyan conflict. Read More
By Tim Eaton and Paul Melly
The idea that enhanced border controls alone can halt flows of migrants across the Mediterranean is a dangerous fiction. Read More
Six years ago, the Libyan people were promised a transition of 18 months. Their transitions continue, and if no action is taken, no end is in sight. Read More
The United Nations launched a road map on Wednesday for a renewed international effort to break a political stalemate in Libya and end the turmoil that followed the country’s 2011 uprising. Read More
By Damien McElroy
Libyans were asked to “seize the opportunity” for national unity after the UN’s envoy presented a roadmap to presidential and parliamentary elections under a new constitution. Read More
By Casper Wuite
‘Too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the broth,’ Ghassan Salamé, the new head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, told the Italian newspaper La Stampa earlier this month, referring to various international initiatives to bring peace to Libya. Read More
By Jalel Harchaoui
On July 25, at peace talks in Paris convened by French President Emmanuel Macron, the leaders of Libya’s two main factions. Read More
By Ryan Goodman and Alex Whiting
The International Criminal Court very recently issued an arrest warrant for a militia leader in Libya which should catch the attention of U.S. policymakers, diplomats and prosecutors. Read More
By Jamal Jawhar
Libyans are looking forward to listen to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s plan, which he will propose before the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, to end the Libyan crisis. Read More
By Lamine Ghanmi
Maghrebi intelligence sources believe that France’s tardy warming to Haftar was prompted by pressure from the French military. Read More
By Libya Herald reporter
Last week, in Washington DC, General Thomas Waldhauser, Commander of U.S. Africa Command, made a presentation at the United States Institute for Peace Program on ‘’U.S.-African Partnerships’’. Read More
By Catherine Philp
Efforts to solve the crisis in Libya have failed because of “too many mediators”, the Italian foreign minister has said. He is calling on other nations to abandon freelance negotiations and let the United Nations take over. Read More
By Khalid Mahmoud
London hosted a meeting on Thursday to support the political process in Libya and back the efforts of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and his special envoy Ghassan Salame. Read More
By Lincoln Pigman and Kyle Orton
The Kremlin is trying to prove it can succeed where Washington failed in ending the country’s slide into chaos. Read More
By Francesca Mannocchi
Militias are trying to take over government detention centres – and trade their occupants as human commodity. The Surman detention centre, home to hundreds of desperate refugees, is nothing more than a concrete block. Read More
By Safa Alharathy
Amr Al-Nami is a well-educated scholar with an open mind who graduated from Cambridge in 1971 and returned to his country as a freedom activist and a strong defender of Islamic culture. Read More
By Mattia Toaldo
This summer has seen a flurry of summits and meetings on Libya. On 25 July, Paris hosted a meeting between Sarraj and Haftar. Read More
It’s been 86 years since the death of Omar al-Mukhtar, who led Libya’s mujahedeen against British, French, Italian invaders. Read More
By Libya Herald reporter
Moves made in Misrata last week to implement the agreement permitting Tawerghans to return home appear to have proved unworkable today after four Tawerghan families who had gone to Tawergha for a temporary visit, were reported to have been shot at by a Misratan militia while they preparing eat a celebration meal. Read More
By Stephen Walker
The government has rejected a call for a UK reparations fund for victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA attacks. The fund was originally suggested by a cross-party group of MPs on the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. Read More
By Alessandra Bocchi
“Gaddafi’s removal allowed both women and men to [openly] talk about the issues affecting Libya,” said Faiza Ramadan, a female artist living in Libya’s capital, Tripoli. Read More
By Imad K. Harb
The apparent hiatus in Libya’s chaotic scene obscures some serious developments that further jeopardize the unity of the country, its civic peace, and its future stability. Read More
By Reed Blakemore and Elissa Miller
A recent series of militant attacks that forced the closure of three of Libya’s key oil fields represents the latest blow to the North African nation’s efforts to revive its energy sector while reigning in the chronic instability that has plagued the country since its 2011 revolution. Read More
Leaked emails purportedly between UAE ambassador to the US Yousef Otaiba and then-US national security adviser Susan Rice may indicate that the United States knew about illegal arms shipments to rebels in Libya. Read More
The National Council on U.S.-Libya Relations (NCUSLR) recently completed a visit to eastern Libya and issued the following report on its visit: Read More
An American heart surgeon has launched into the Government of National Accord (GNA) for what he says is a complete absence of concern for Libyan children needing life-saving operations. Read More
By Anouar Boukhars
More than six years after the revolution that ousted former president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s border regions remain hotbeds of social discontent and agitation. Read More
By Samuel Ramani
Since the collapse of Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, Russian policymakers have consistently condemned NATO’s decision to carry out a regime change mission in Libya and placed the burden of responsibility for the breakdown of central authority in Libya on the West. Read More
By Patrick Wintour
Fears that overlapping European and Middle Eastern peace initiatives for Libya are hampering the new UN special envoy are to be aired this week at a special conference convened by the UK foreign secretary, Boris Johnson. Read More
The International Criminal Court on Wednesday renewed its calls for the arrest of a Libyan military officer suspected of executing 33 detainees in the war-torn city of Benghazi. Read More